The Serendipitous Phoenix: Dirigo Brewing Company Dirigo Brewing Company fills this week’s Great Beer Adventure with a bit of a unique origin story. This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to anyone familiar with their beer. Dirigo brews several styles of beer that were once nearly extinct, and they have made some unique partnerships. […]

This interview with Scott Benson from Threshers Brewing Co is the last installment of the Brief Brewery Bio episodes recorded at the Maine Brewer’s Guild’s Freshman Orientation. Origin Story: Scott Benson and Ethan Evangelos went to Highschool together and worked as carpenters together. Both decided they were tired of being a hammer always looking for […]

Amanda finds herself with a drink in Providence, Rhode Island in this week’s Great Beer Adventure. She is sharing bar space with Tommy Tainsh, head brew master of Trinity Brewhouse. Get ready for crabs, strawberries, and Capri Sun. Origin The Trinity Brewhouse has been serving craft beer since 1994-back before brewpubs were anywhere else in […]

Origin Story Steven had been homebrewing for well over 20 years and noticed a need for a home brew supply store on the coast. But Steven knew that someday he wanted to open a brewery. It just made sense to marry the two ideas and Simplicity Brewing and Supply became a reality. Simplicity Brewing’s Signature […]

Amanda hopes sturdy beer is helping you fellow adventurers power through the beginning of 2017. She even has a surprise for you in this episode! One that will make you bust out some crayons at your next drinking session to make it more communal and fun. Ever wonder what parasites, jeweled bear horns, and black […]

Saco River Brewing broke onto the Maine beer scene in 2016. This brewery started at the Good Beer Store. Mason Irish and Kevin Antonucci came from a home brewing background. They started a home brewing club, called IBU. It’s like a book club or bridge club. Except, you know, with beer. So it’s way cooler, and […]

Medusa (n): An excellent craft brewery in Hudson Massachusetts. In Greek Mythology: a monster in the form of a woman with an ugly face, snakes for hair, and special powers. In Biology: a cnidarian with an umbrella-shaped body that kind of looks like a gooey garbage bag with stinging tentacles, sometimes. Amanda sits down with […]

Tom Madden and John Paul went to High School and played in a band together. But after graduation the two walked separate paths. Tom worked in the family beverage business and John moved to Boston to worked in the music industry. Tom’s father started selling homebrew supplies, which meant someone needed to learn how to use […]

The end of this week’s Great Beer Adventure ends with a cacophony of clinking beer glasses, so why not start off with that! Amanda sat down with 5 guests in this episode to discuss the intricacies of beer blending – which is an art form, science, and risk mixed together in (hopefully) one palatable drink. […]

Norway Brewing: The Origin Story Charlie was born in Norway and move to the United States at a young age. Studying brewing in Maine, working as a chef and working the bottling line in a Norway brewery, Charlie like the Great Babe Ruth called his shot. I can’t spoil the ending. You have to listen. What […]